[-empyre-] Gunalan Nadarajan: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Timothy Murray]

I wish that the new year will be less digital  - i.e., that it will 
be less determined by the strictly digital technologies and 
concomitant capacities. Our times have already gone beyond the 
'digital', understood as constituted by discrete, separable and 
therefore infinitely (or at least, seemingly) reconfigurable parts. 
For a while now we have witnessed the intriguing permutations of 
digital technologies with the biotechnological and the metamaterial 
via nanotechnologies and other material innovations; in fact, it is 
the susceptibility to digitality of these technologies and materials 
that constitutes their ability to hybridize or sync with each other. 
It is my hope that this susceptibility will open further occasions to 
exploit and challenge the logic of and uncritical enthusiasm for the 
'digital'.

BIO: Gunalan Nadarajan (Singapore/US) is,an art theorist and curator 
from Singapore, is Vice Provost for Research at MICA (Maryland 
Institute College of Arts). Prior to joining MICA, Gunalan was 
Professor of Art and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies 
at the College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State University. He 
has curated over twenty exhibitions internationally and was most 
recently Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on 
Electronic Art) in Singapore.

-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University